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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






2. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






3. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






4. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






5. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






6. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






7. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






8. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






9. r-controlled syllable






10. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






11. Academic Language Therapy Association






12. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






13. Final stable syllable

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14. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






15. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






16. Multisensory Structured Language






17. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






18. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






19. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






20. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






21. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






22. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






23. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






24. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school






25. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






26. Feeling through fingertips






27. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






28. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






29. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






30. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






31. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






32. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






33. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






34. Open syllable






35. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






36. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






37. Ability to understand and express spoken language






38. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






39. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






40. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






41. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






42. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.






43. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.






44. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






45. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






46. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






47. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






48. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






49. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






50. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.